Dunlin Press

01/12/2023

It's tomorrow! Come and join us at Norwich's Dragon Hall for the City of Literature Publishing Fair at the Fair at the National Centre for Writing  

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30/11/2023

Bubblegum is our celebration of playful creativity and experimentation. Bubblegum contains a long continuous single sentence of words from poet MW Bewick , and abstract illustration from artist Ella Johnston . It's an insta-fantasy dream scroll and a strangely intoxicating read.
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28/11/2023

It's one of our missions for our projects to act like a time capsules for the period we created them. This image is from the Est archives, Snape 2013.

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27/11/2023

We started 2023 with working on Boot Sale Harvest by Adrian May. The book is completely charming and a total joy to work on, from editing to creating the art work. Dunlin Press art director Ella Johnston created the lino cuts for the book cover, we wanted the prints to have a folky, retro feel that reflected the eclectic objects that Adrian writes about and enjoys. Here's a few initial scans. *

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25/11/2023

Not long now until the City of Literature Publishing Fair. We'll be at the Fair at the National Centre for Writing in Norwich on Saturday 2nd December. It looks like it's going to be a fantastic event with some brilliant publishers. We'll be showcasing our collection of books and prints. If you're in the area, come and say hello.

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24/11/2023

EST: COLLECTED REPORTS FROM EAST ANGLIA was our first Dunlin Press book. From the get-go we wanted our publications to be special, to have little treats and surprises inside.  In order to give our first title an added extra we went out and around East Anglia to photograph places of interest, we also created some bespoke mono watercolour 'landscapes'. These landscapes were deliberately enigmatic making reference to the nature of the landscape but allowing the work of our authors to fill in the gaps. 

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23/11/2023

A REMINDER. We have had a fantastic response to our call for entries and are already impressed by the wide range of work being sent to us. We do have a very long submissions window to give people time to get their work together - and time for us to read through everything.

Dunlin Press will publish a small series of four pamphlets, focusing on experimental texts and writing to be published throughout the year. We are looking to publish pamphlets of around 20 x A5 pages of text/poems. We are interested in experimental texts and writing that might be considered avant-garde, including poetry, prose-poetry and other literary forms. Our deadline for entries is 29th January 2024.

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22/11/2023

One of our cover ideas for VLOED by Lucia Dove . 

It’s always an interesting process to develop a book’s artwork, and it was great to discuss ideas with the author. Before we started putting the book together Lucia had been to the Into The Great Wide Open festival. At the festival there was an activity known as ‘Vliebanieren’ – stencil painting on fabric. Lucia thought this would be a great starting point as a cover idea. Which is was. 

You and see the finished cover and indeed buy VLOED on the Dunlin Press Big Cartel Shop.
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15/11/2023

"Like a willow I bent over you and wept, watched my tears dome then trickle over your cracked lips." 

This is from our 2018 release, Lessons for an Apprentice Eel Catcher. This debut collection from poet  Alex Toms  is a true delight. In her poems, Toms skilfully summons the uncanny, and out of it draws a slithering sense with which we are all familiar. Here are all the snares of life, and also perhaps, a spell that could set us free.

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14/11/2023

Of course you wouldn't start from here
since we haven't time for this and time
hasn't time except we're here

From Pomes Flixus by  

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10/11/2023

"We are optimal fit. We are the case. We are shown."

Images and quote from A Long Lived Magma Ocean on a Young Moon, a book and art project from Dunlin founders and . You can buy the pamphlet on our big cartel site and the accompanying soundtrack via BandCamp. 

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08/11/2023

Great news. We'll be taking part in the City of Literature Publishing Fair at the National Centre for Writing in Norwich on Saturday 2nd December. As the blurb says, "Meet the publishers, browse their work and stock up on gifts for friends and family. There’ll be festive refreshments on offer, too! The perfect weekend event for writers, readers, editors, and creators of all kinds." We'll be showcasing our collection of books and prints. If you're in the area, come and say hello.
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07/11/2023

We first envisaged our book The Orphaned Spaces to be a paper bag full of notes, postcards, and found objects. But then we got carried away. This is one of the many of the many ikebana inspired wild flower pictures we took for the book but didn't actually use. We have amassed quite the image library over the years, and quite a few of them are too good not to share.

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05/11/2023

"Office jobs are so funny and camera psychosis of bittersweet blooms from seed to vase the discount friends with relatable comment in matt terrazzo the merry cities pulse richly." Extract and artwork from Bubblegum, out latest publication. 
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02/11/2023

We've had a few new followers recently. So we thought we'd re-introduce ourselves. We are are a not for profit small, independent publisher and art collective. Founded by poet and artist , Dunlin Press is an expression of our creative vision, cultural outlook, and aesthetic sensibilities. It also mines our 20-plus years’ ‘day job’ experience in commercial editorial and story-telling.  We are interested in experimental texts and writing that might be considered avant-garde. We want to delight and intrigue. At Dunlin Press, we never aim for mainstream success.
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31/10/2023

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Next year, we're going to publish a small series of pamphlets, focusing on experimental texts, poetry, and avant-garde writing to be published throughout the year. If you're interested in submitting, please visit the link in our biog for more information and how to enter your work.
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30/10/2023

We're welcoming new writing submissions for some small pamphlets to be published next year. See link for details....

In 2024 Dunlin Press will publish a small series of four pamphlets, focusing on experimental texts and avant-garde writing to be published throughout the year. We are looking to publish pamphlets o…

27/10/2023

Hope everyone's having a great fair. We can't be there this year but we miss it! Big up all the indie presses! x

22/10/2023

Bubblegum cover art.
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11/10/2023

We had the loveliest time at this weekend. Big love and gratitude to and for organising such a great event. We met many fabulous fellow publishers and wonderful readers. And we launched Bubblegum - the ultimate doom scroll! A great couple of days.
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07/10/2023

It's Bubblegum launch day. We'll be launching our new pamphlet at the

Make it light
Make it fun
Make it POP
Like bubblegum!

Bubblegum is an Insta-fantasy dream scroll, a social-media hackathon, a deep dive of consumer totems, a litany of fomo, a rhapsody in humble brags, a timeline in timewasting, an amirite of lifestyle aesthetics, a no-cap take on contemporary culture, a want-this list of hyper-moments, a clapback track for the always-on, a rent-free take on pseudo-nowness, a deconstructionist take on clickbait… and more, or other. IYKYK.

Bubblegum contains a long continuous single sentence of words from poet MW Bewick, and abstract illustration from artist Ella Johnston.
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04/10/2023

Publication number 12, coming soon.
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30/09/2023

A week to go until the , where we'll be showcasing our books and limited edition prints. Here's another of our books, PORT, Words From the Edge of Land. The 274-page book includes specially commissioned writing from 38 contributors and features 20 photographs and illustrations. Geographically, the anthology reaches all corners of the UK and beyond – from giant container ports to small fishing villages, while the breadth of writing and experience in the volume is as diverse as the ports themselves.
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26/09/2023

Come see us at and you'll get to see our first book, Est: Collected Reports from East Anglia. The book takes you on a journey through the landscapes of East Anglia, Est is a unique collection of prose, poetry and reportage that spans the Wash to the Thames and the Fens to the German Sea. The texts merge psychogeography, social history, personal memoir and travel writing with discourses on local fable, art, archaeology and conservation. The collection explores the salt marshes and creeks, the sand and shingle beaches, the remains of Roman and Anglo-Saxon dwellings, the giant skies, interior geographies and, perhaps most of all, human histories, to paint an enigmatic picture of East Anglia today – while referencing more than 260 places in the region.
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25/09/2023

Join us at the Foreword Festival in Bury St Edmunds on October 7-8th. We'll be showcasing a classic of ours Migrant Waders. The Migrant Waders is a collection of illustration, evocative prose, poetry and reportage that follows the migration routes of wading and shore birds from the high arctic to the tropics. Taking in the histories of the people and places where the birds make their temporary homes, the book includes 21 ink and watercolour avian illustrations by Ella Johnston and contributions from the country's most interesting nature and landscape writers, as well as leading ecologists and environmentalists.
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23/09/2023

Our Fringe Book Fair will feature authors and indie publishers. Today, meet the first of our publishing participants, Dunlin Press!

Dunlin Press is a not for profit small, independent publisher and art collective. Founded by poet MW Bewick and artist Ella Johnston, Dunlin Press is an expression of their creative vision, cultural outlook and aesthetic sensibilities.

Dunlin Press’ focus is work that, for various reasons, might prove difficult to place with more established or commercial publishers. It publishes works of fiction and non-fiction, poetry, photo-essays, illustration and more.

20/09/2023

Come and see us at the upcoming in Bury St Edmunds and check out our best-selling book, VLOED, by the brilliant . VLOED is a work of creative nonfiction. Comprising historical analysis, poetry, and photography, the book explores the shared cultural memory and landscape between Essex and the Netherlands in relation to the North Sea Flood of 1953. The disaster, which left deep impressions at both local and national levels across the two places, is perceived here through the lenses of heritage, homesickness, and decay.
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15/09/2023

Join us at the Foreword Festival in Bury St Edmunds on October 7-8th. And take a look at A Study of a Long-Lived Magma Ocean on A Young Moon - art and poetry from and . A very limited number of copies will be available at the show. 
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12/09/2023

Join us in Bury St Edmunds on October 7th and 8th for the Foreword Festival

At the festival, we'll be selling books from our collection, including our latest release, Boot Sale Harvest by Adrian May. Here, the author takes a seasonal journey through the car-boot fields that artist Grayson Perry has described as being like a “casual museum”. In the boot sales of Essex, we discover the lost and found of everyday life and begin to reclaim the “things that the everyday folks leave behind”. And in the bricolage of overlooked histories, we learn of forgotten writers, of fairy tales, of the need for magic and humour, and of love and loss and everything in between. What is really found at the boot sales, and in these pages, are the honest treasures of our society – from a writer we can treasure, too.

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07/09/2023

One month to go! Join us in Bury St Edmunds on October 7th and 8th for the Foreword Festival: Writing on the Fringe.


We'll be taking part at the festival book fair at the Guildhall in Bury St Edmunds – a building with 1000 years of history. Entry to the Guildhall will be free. 

You'll be able to buy our books and some limited edition prints. We'll also be launching a new limited edition work created by Dunlin Press founders - watch this space. 
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